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In the Dumbo section of Brooklyn, some residents are still tasting their victory of two weeks ago, when the prominent developer David Walentas of Two Trees Management scrapped his plan to build a 16-story apartment tower at the foot of the Brooklyn...

WITH his deep tan and shaggy head, David Walentas looks more like an aging yachtie than a seasoned New York developer with a half-billion dollars or so worth of property under his belt -- more Jimmy Buffett than Warren Buffett. Yet the self-styled...

August 15, 2004, Sunday

To the Editor: Andy Newman's article could not have been better timed. The ''heart-stopping views'' from the Brooklyn Bridge that he describes may soon become just heartbreaking memories. A local developer, David C. Walentas of Two Trees...

Two and a half years after Arts at St. Ann's set up shop in a former spice-milling factory near the foot of the Brooklyn Bridge, a proposed development project has the center again looking for a home. The arts group moved to the factory and...

Madison Avenue this is not. And don't be fooled by the $4.35 chocolate bars at the chocolatier Jacques Torres on Water Street. The Brooklyn neighborhood called Dumbo has leapfrogged from being a gritty manufacturing district to a hot residential...

UNLESS you make an enemy of him, or front him a bushel of money for a real estate adventure, odds are that David C. Walentas, the developer who latched onto Brooklyn's derelict Dumbo neighborhood decades ago and, several hundred million dollars in...